Plants & Equipment

Fuchs has partnered with KCF Technologies to help manufacturers reduce downtime and operating costs by addressing lubrication-related failures in real ...

An acquisition company made the winning U.S.$10 billion bid for the beleaguered ex-Venezuelan refiner Citgo.

Labor organizations and social activists staged a protest outside a lubricant company where three workers were killed and one was injured during maint ...

An Operations Excellence Practitioner’s Perspective  Annual medical checkups are a common part of life these days but were viewed differentl ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. announced recently that it will expand both of its finished lubricant blending plants in order to accommodate the compa ...

ExxonMobil announced Wednesday that it will upgrade the base oil plant at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, giving it capacity to make 8,000 barrels per d ...

A series of explosions ripped through Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant blender and distributor based in Roseland, Louisiana, starting a fire that sent f ...

Two of Saudi Aramco’s base oil refiners posted their H1 results.

Zambia has signed a $1.1 billion agreement with China’s Fujian Xiang Xin to build a major oil refinery in Ndola, with a dedicated lubricants blendin ...

Vietnam’s Tay Sai Gon Group completed a blending plant in Long An province last month with capacity of 100 million liters per year.

Petrobras plans to invest $6.07 billion in increasing refining and petrochemicals capacity.

HD Hyundai Shell Base Oil, a joint venture between HD Hyundai Oilbank and Shell, plans to expand its Daesan facility to include a new API Group II bas ...

Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. intends to install a base oil unit and a finished lubricant blending plant at its refinery in Bina, India. To do so, the ...

The implementation of Industry 4.0 in automation technologies is expected to increase the need for lubricants in advanced machinery and robotics. Raj ...

Zeller+Gmelin, a chemical company based in Germany, has opened a lubricant production facility in Huzhou, China, as part of its expansion in Asia.

Operations at the joint BASF-Sinopec ethanolamines plant in Nanjing are expected to resume at the end of May.

Fuchs Petrolub SE, the German lubricants manufacturer, is investing more than 220 million Brazilian real (U.S.$39 million) to construct a blending fac ...

Saudi-based base oil producer Luberef completed the replacement of its hydrocracker catalyst at its Yanbu site.

Gazpromneft-Lubricants starts white oils production in Russia.

Navigating the Future

April 30, 2025

Kline & Co.’s David Tsui explains how sustainability, resiliency and specification upgrades will impact the global lubricant additives industry.